Crusade alias jihad: Letters to the Editor

Crusade alias jihad

The word crusade and jihad are same in meaning. The word crusade is for Christians and jihad for Muslims. Jihad and crusade are direct fight for spreading their respective religions by the might of swords throughout the world. On the other words Hinduism has no such records of aggressive display of force to spread the religion. It is proven fact that the word 'secularism' is only applicable with Hindus but yet they are always in the receiving end.

A Secular Indian,

Assam.

Aadhaar enrollment

With the implementation of nationwide lockdown, people were unable to resume their work of aadhaar enrollment, solving their issues of correcting the errors in their specific aadhaar cards etc. as the services were shut down.

With the lifting of the lockdown and services getting resumed, the massive traffic in the enrollment centres is being seen. The aadhaar enrollment centres can accommodate 250-1000 people for enrollment each day but with start of the unlock phase and the already heavy demand at stack, the centres are getting overcrowded every day.

Understanding the concern, the UIDAI proposed an update for the people that, one will have to first book the appointment centre, time-slot and visit the selected centre for enrollment or other issue. However, even this initiative is not helping out the enrollers in any way. Many are still not able to find a free time slot from weeks, the centres are always full with slot occupancy.

When on one hand aadhaar is mandatory to make an SBI bank account, college going students have been asked to possess an individual bank account for many important functions be it scholarship or the other.

This issue requires to be addressed as soon as possible. The UIDAI must look for other alternatives for the common good.

Rajashree Das,

Gauhati University.